Emotion Focused Therapy

Question 1

Primary Contributers

Answer 1

Johnson and Greenberg

Question 2

Role of the Therapist in EFT

Answer 2

1. nonpathologizing
2. diagnostics are systemic and expanded to the couple system
3. models healthy attachment

Question 3

Length of Time

Answer 3

12-20 sessions

Question 4

Unit of Treatment

Answer 4

both partners must be present, the thp will work with each person individually but it is important for the partner to observe the process.

Question 5

Assumptions of EFT

Answer 5

1. grounded in attachment theory

2. insecure attachment styles lead people to hide their primary emotions and express secondary emotions instead.

Question 6

validating

Answer 6

validate each client to create a strong alliance/therapeutic safety

Question 7

focusing the session

Answer 7

engaging clients to remain attuned of new more responsive interactional patterns and expressing primary emotions

Question 8

slowing down the processing

Answer 8

making sure clients cultivate a capacity to sit with their primary emotions and pain as well as their partners

Question 9

organizing

Answer 9

creating coherence between partners by reflecting/summarizing the growth and change as it takes place throughout the discourse of treatment

Question 10

goals of EFT

Answer 10

1. goal is to reprocess emotional responses that organize attachment bxs
2. de-escalate the problematic interactional cyccle that maintains attachment insecurity and relationship distress by creating a therapeutic alliance and assessing for primary emotions
3. promote identification with disowned attachment needs and feers and promote acceptance of other partner’s experience, creating new responses and altering negative cycles
4. create emotional engagement through expression of specific needs and wants of each partner
5. facilitate the emergence of new solutions to old problematic relationship issues through the consolidation of new positive and cycles of attachment behavior

Question 11

look within

Answer 11

explore how each partner constructs his or her emotional experience of relatiedness

Question 12

Looking between

Answer 12

exploring how partners engage each other and identifying each individual’s role int he creation and maintenance of negative ineractional patterns

Question 13

Phase I of EFT

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1. de-escalate and satablization.
2. establish alliange and clarify core issue as attachment-based.
3. identify negative interactional cycle that maintains attachment insecurity
4. access underlying emotions driving the interactional positions
5. reframe the problem as a cycle based on attachment needs/fears

Question 14

Phase II of EFT

Answer 14

4. restructuring Interactional Positions/Patterns
5. promote identification w/ disowned attachment needs
6. promote acceptance of and responsiveness to each partner’s new construction of wants

Question 15

Phase III of EFT

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8. Facilitating emergence of new solutions to old problematic relationship issues
9. consolidating new positions and cycles of attachemnt bxs.

Question 16

Termination in EFT

Answer 16

Termination occures when Phase III tasks independently maintained by the couple
(new solutions and new attachment cycles emerge)

Question 17

primary emotions

Answer 17

deeprooted emotions about how we feel, usually the feelings that make us feel vulnerable

Question 18

secondary emotions

Answer 18

the feelings that we choose to express outwardly, more defensive in nature and deconstructive

Question 19

attachment:

Answer 19

the ability of a person to connect to a caregiver or another person securley

Question 20

softening

Answer 20

a process where the person speaking about difficult emotions reduces the intensity of the emotion by leaning into it, speaking from a place of care and concern

Question 21

interactional styles

Answer 21

based on attachment, how couples interact with one another express emotions.

Question 22

primary needs

Answer 22

the fundamental needs of a person in order to feel safe.

Question 23

Bonding

Answer 23

the capacity fora person to connect securely to another, also somethign the Thp does in the session in order to make the couple feel sefe in exploring their issues together